Musical Quotes

Silence more musical than any song. (Christina Rossetti)
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences. View quote
Edith Wharton
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. View quote
Kurt Cobain
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself. View quote
Johann Sebastian Bach
Hell is full of musical amateurs. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. View quote
Alan Watts
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. View quote
Ray Charles
The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee. View quote
Jean Cocteau
I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds. View quote
Ennio Morricone
We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin. View quote
Vangelis
A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound. (Kid Rock)
Contour refers to the pattern of musical pitch in a melody-the sequence of ups or downs that the melody takes-regardless of the size of the interval. View quote
Daniel Levitin
Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track. View quote
Bill Watterson
Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed. View quote
W. C. Handy
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin of human thought. View quote
Helen Keller
Reporter: How many people who labor in the same musical vineyard in which you toil - how many are protest singers? That is, people who use their music, and use the songs to protest the, uh, social state in which we live today: the matter of war, the matter of crime, or whatever it might be. Bob Dylan: Uh, I think there's about, uh...136. Reporter: You say about 136, or you mean exactly 136? Bob Dylan: Uh, it's either 136 or 142. View quote
Bob Dylan
Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the fourth and the fifth, and with geometricians in the subject of vision; and in all other sciences many points, perhaps all, are common so far as the discussion of them is concerned. But the actual undertaking of works which are brought to perfection by the hand and its manipulation is the function of those who have been specially trained to deal with a single art. View quote
Vitruvius
I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies. View quote
Francis Ford Coppola
Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty. View quote
Roger Moore
I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc. (Howard Gardner)
Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. View quote
Eugenio Montale
The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical context. The guitar playing stood out as being different in some way. That was a real education for me. View quote
Arto Lindsay
Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer. View quote
Betty Buckley
Both parents were very encouraging - especially my father. My father thought the sun rose and set with me. Neither one had a musical background or any musical talent. They liked classical music, but neither could carry a tune. View quote
Gordon Getty